धर्म
Hindi
noun
Definitions
- religion, faith
- virtue, righteousness; morality
- duty
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit धर्म (that which upholds supports, law, morality, duty, religion, code, statute, justice, ordinance, regulation, religious duty, dharma, virtue, precept, rule, etc, that which upholds support) derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰármas derived from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (hold, support, dirty, dull, bear, roar, hod, hum, drone) root from Sanskrit धृ (bear).
Origin
Sanskrit
धृ
Gloss
bear
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
熊
Emoji
🐨 🐻❄️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- confirmation English
- confirmative English
- dethrone English
- dharma English
- dharmsala English
- enthrone English
- infirmary English
- terra firma English
- affirmare Latin
- affirmativus Latin
- confirmare, confirmāre Latin
- drenso Latin
- ferme Latin
- firmo Latin
- firmāmentum Latin
- formido Latin
- frenum Latin
- frenum, frēnum Latin
- fretus Latin
- frēnulum Latin
- frēnum Latin
- infirmus Latin
- Firma German
- dharma Italian
- fermata Italian
- дхарма Russian
- θρόνος Ancient Greek
- *dʰer- Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰer-, *dʰer-mos Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰer-mo-s Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰerg- Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰreybʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰér-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰér-mos Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰérmos, *dʰer- Proto-Indo-European
- darma Portuguese
- *dasōjan- Proto-Germanic
- *durô Proto-Germanic
- 達磨 Japanese
- dyrnan Old English
- अग्र Sanskrit
- अधर्म Sanskrit
- धरण Sanskrit
- धरति Sanskrit
- धरिमन् Sanskrit
- धर्म Sanskrit
- धर्मचक्र Sanskrit
- धर्मता Sanskrit
- धर्मार्थ Sanskrit
- धर्मिन् Sanskrit
- धार्मिक Sanskrit
- धृ Sanskrit
- ध्रुव Sanskrit
- darma Irish
- *dьržati Proto-Slavic
- अधर्म Hindi
- अर्थ Hindi
- कुल Hindi
- कुलधर्म Hindi
- धरना Hindi
- धरोहर Hindi
- धर्मग्रंथ Hindi
- धर्मपरायण Hindi
- धर्मशाला Hindi
- धर्मार्थ Hindi
- धर्मी Hindi
- धार्मिक Hindi
- रेडियोधर्मी Hindi
- विधर्म Hindi
- शाला Hindi
- ธรรม Thai
- ธรรมนูญ Thai
- ธรรมะ Thai
- ธรรมะธัมโม Thai
- դեռ Old Armenian
- అతిథిధర్మము Telugu
- ధర్మాసుపత్రి Telugu
- derma Malay
- *darnī gmw-pro
- ধৰ্ম Assamese
- 達摩 Chinese
- anuñña Pali
- dhamma Pali
- dhammo Pali
- *Hwásuš Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *dhar- Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *dʰar- Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *dʰármas Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *fermos Proto-Italic
- धर्म Marathi
- ធម៌ Central Khmer
- derėti Lithuanian
- *dʰar- Proto-Indo-Aryan
- *dʰármas Proto-Indo-Aryan
- ধরম Bengali
- ধর্ম Bengali
- دھرم Urdu
- 𑀥𑀭𑀤𑀺 Sauraseni Prakrit
- தருமன் Tamil
- தருமம் Tamil
- دھرم Panjabi, Punjabi
- ਧਰਮ Panjabi, Punjabi
- 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎢𐏁 Old Persian
- 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎫𐎡𐎹 Old Persian
- 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 Old Persian
- 𑀥𑀁𑀫 Ashokan Prakrit
- ᬥᬃᬫ Balinese
- धर्म Nepali
- darma ms-cla
- derma ms-cla
- धर्म Newari